.gitignore behavior on Mac

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.gitignore behavior on Mac

From: Peter Lauri <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

Shouldn't this be valid? I would expect to NOT see the
core/inc/config.inc.php in the "git status" output...

Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ cat .gitignore
.buildpath
.project
.settings/
web/pjotr.php
core/inc/config.inc.php
dt_error.log
process_wrapper.sh

Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ git status
# On branch local/DT-7_gantt
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
# modified:   .gitignore
# modified:   core/inc/config.inc.php
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# out.ionel
# tree.py
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$

Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: John Keeping <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:36:42PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
Shouldn't this be valid? I would expect to NOT see the
core/inc/config.inc.php in the "git status" output...

Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ cat .gitignore
.buildpath
.project
.settings/
web/pjotr.php
core/inc/config.inc.php
dt_error.log
process_wrapper.sh

Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ git status
# On branch local/DT-7_gantt
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
# modified:   .gitignore
# modified:   core/inc/config.inc.php
core/inc/config.inc.php is already in the repository.  Git won't ignore
files that are already tracked.

If you remove the file from the index:

    git rm --cached core/inc/config.inc.php

then you'll see it as deleted in "git status" but it won't appear in the
untracked files section even though it's still there in the working
tree.
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# out.ionel
# tree.py
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$
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Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: Peter Lauri <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

But I just don't want to see that darn file. It is a config file that
I have changed, and I don't want to need to stash it for each "git
svn" action I want to perform... Any solution for that?

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:41 PM, John Keeping [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:36:42PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
quoted
Shouldn't this be valid? I would expect to NOT see the
core/inc/config.inc.php in the "git status" output...

Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ cat .gitignore
.buildpath
.project
.settings/
web/pjotr.php
core/inc/config.inc.php
dt_error.log
process_wrapper.sh

Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$ git status
# On branch local/DT-7_gantt
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
# modified:   .gitignore
# modified:   core/inc/config.inc.php
core/inc/config.inc.php is already in the repository.  Git won't ignore
files that are already tracked.

If you remove the file from the index:

    git rm --cached core/inc/config.inc.php

then you'll see it as deleted in "git status" but it won't appear in the
untracked files section even though it's still there in the working
tree.
quoted
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# out.ionel
# tree.py
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
Peters-MacBook-Air:dt-git plauri$
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Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: John Keeping <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:43:57PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
But I just don't want to see that darn file. It is a config file that
I have changed, and I don't want to need to stash it for each "git
svn" action I want to perform... Any solution for that?
Read about --assume-unchanged in git-update-index(1).

Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: Johannes Sixt <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

Am 18.05.2013 20:55, schrieb John Keeping:
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:43:57PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
quoted
But I just don't want to see that darn file. It is a config file that
I have changed, and I don't want to need to stash it for each "git
svn" action I want to perform... Any solution for that?
Read about --assume-unchanged in git-update-index(1).
Beware!! --assume-unchanged is a promise not to modify a file, but that
is not true in this case, because it *was* modified. It might hide the
file from the git-status output, but then git might do something
unexpected sometimes, because a promise was not kept.

See last paragraph of
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146353

-- Hannes

Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: Peter Lauri <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

Great, I have gotten the concept now :)

My workaround for my problem is to rename the file to ....default and
then all will work out well :) Copy the file then and locally modify
it, but it will be in .gitignore so not tracked :)

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:
Am 18.05.2013 20:55, schrieb John Keeping:
quoted
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:43:57PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
quoted
But I just don't want to see that darn file. It is a config file that
I have changed, and I don't want to need to stash it for each "git
svn" action I want to perform... Any solution for that?
Read about --assume-unchanged in git-update-index(1).
Beware!! --assume-unchanged is a promise not to modify a file, but that
is not true in this case, because it *was* modified. It might hide the
file from the git-status output, but then git might do something
unexpected sometimes, because a promise was not kept.

See last paragraph of
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146353

-- Hannes

Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From: Antony Male <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:19

On 18/05/2013 23:37, Peter Lauri wrote:
Great, I have gotten the concept now :)

My workaround for my problem is to rename the file to ....default and
then all will work out well :) Copy the file then and locally modify
it, but it will be in .gitignore so not tracked :)
Over in the #git IRC channel, we point users asking this question to 
https://gist.github.com/canton7/1423106. It contains that approach, and 
quite a few others.

Antony
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